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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of life according to Botticelli?
(a) Love.
(b) Suffering of others.
(c) Self sacrifice.
(d) Peace in all things.

2. What else did the King order?
(a) That rats be banished.
(b) That all the rats be killed.
(c) That Roscuro be found and punished.
(d) That mice be allowed.

3. What two reasons make the dungeon so dangerous?
(a) The cold and the dark.
(b) The rats and other prisoners.
(c) The maze and the cold.
(d) The rats and the maze.

4. What does Despereaux do in the library?
(a) He reads the books.
(b) He eats the bindings.
(c) He researches his heritage.
(d) He looks out the window.

5. What nationality is Despereaux's mother?
(a) Italian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) French.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the new prisoner being jailed for?

2. What other crime did he commit that he wasn't caught for?

3. What did the King do after his Queen died?

4. What happens to Roscuro as a result of seeing the light from the match?

5. What do Despereaux's brother and sister take him to the library for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the job of the threadmaster?

2. What is the purpose of the Mouse Council?

3. When Despereaux faints, what does he wake up to see?

4. What does Roscuro discover when he works up the courage to go upstairs into the light?

5. In what ways do Despereaux's siblings attempt to educate him on how to be a mouse?

6. How does Antoinette react as the last of her babies is being taken to the dungeon?

7. What is the first thing that Despereaux is aware of after he is pushed down the dungeon steps by Furlough and the second guard?

8. What happens when the Princess begins to cry?

9. How does Despereaux's behavior get him into trouble?

10. What fascination does Roscuro develop even though he is told it is not proper?

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